Letter to the Editor: LaTourette's new job shows hypocrisy

Ah, the proverbial revolving door of politics which John Arthur Hutchison ignores in his Jan. 9 article on former Rep. Steve LaTourette's new job. LaTourette ostensibly felt compelled to resign from Congress because of intolerable gridlock caused by political partisanship.

So, less than a month after retiring, what does the noble former congressman do? He not only joins his wife as a highly paid lobbyist at McDonald Hopkins, which Hutchison euphemistically terms "a business advisory and advocacy firm," but he becomes president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, positions expressly designed to promote partisanship and the gridlock LaTourette supposedly deplored. What hypocrisy! And people criticize Dennis Kucinich?!